Opinion: One Man, One Vote?

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... back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the Supreme Court takes up an important provision of the nineteen sixty five voting rights Act this week ... that has left crying racism ... political diary editor editorial board member Jason Riley is here Jason ... but the fuss all about ... well you know if the voting rights Act I aam where the voting rights ... well the voting rights Act was passed in nineteen sixty five and ... the irony here is that it's been a tremendous success story ... this was a a law passed ... at a time when there was frankly a lot of racial discrimination ... violent opposition to black Spaulding take a leak ... in the south just to give you quick example aam ... in nineteen sixty four of the year before the voting rights Act passed ... voter registration Mississippi was seven percent ... a year after tax nineteen sixty six it was sixty per cent and to date ... a black motor registration itself is higher than is the menorah ... and I'm so the voting rights Act is really a success story ... and the story today however is how the last ... one to use that ... ah for reasons that was never intended to be used for the robbery rate it was intended to be a temporary provision ... an emergency measure ... on it fulfilled its purpose and the left wants to keep in place for other reasons mainly on hand including but not limited to ... the believe that the Republicans over the head and call them racists one of the IPOs ... of making certain provisions of an obsolete okay so not enough the whole act were just talking about section five for this section five to write the whole when we are not going to return to the literacy test and poll taxes ... those are common in provisions ... of the voting rights Act were talking about a provision in there that says ... the federal government ... on past to sign off on changes to voting procedures ... and certain status Leon song was a history ... of of discrimination ... dating back ... to prior to nineteen ... nineteen sixty five or talk about those provisions ... had no state show that they no longer need this federal supervision ... and the heavens as I mentioned earlier in terms of voter registration rates is overwhelming that this is unnecessary this is an obsolete ... provision but the left wants keeping in place they they renewed it ... in nineteen ... and two thousandsix for another twenty five years and the ... White House and Congress dealt with this if it's such an obsolete provision along well it's it's tough I mean you still have members of the wasn't that long ago he still had members of Congress what John Lewis who were part of the film rights movement ... anytime you want to talk about ... updating it for for getting rid of those awfully permissions he starts moralizing I knew getting out there talking about ... how people add for this cause ... and ... what love really was due today however ... is use this permission to do other things it's no longer about ... access to the ballot with the racial and ten dollar but it's about outcomes ... it's about racial gerrymandering it's about to create these majority black districts ... it's about ... blocking voter ID laws that are really about ... voter about ballot integrity so they only use this federal jurisdiction to do other things affecting how cops ... on the left and they're finding that for the purposes of owning the country is still nineteen sixty five in the middle of the Black ... White House and a black man or an adjusted ... it and and also I can come please or rice the Secretary State Colin Powell etc ... long way we have come along with that person want from Florida for has had some issues when it comes to ... ballot boxes he trusts the States ... I in in in the voting systems in the state's two together from any one person one vote is that well the thing is to the voting rights that you can ... you can trust that to happen if it doesn't happen there's legal recourse for people to take that wasn't there before the voting rights Act in nineteen sixty five ... what they're saying though and I'm in the question here is ... what's worse the other for the federal government ... would do better ... the ten states in terms of writing these day-to-day operations ... ALM so so so that's the question of the bottom line ... is that the country's come a long way ... if people believe they're being discriminated against his legal recourse ... and this provision of the voting rights tacked ... on his way past its peak into the justice Kennedy the swing voters usually ... it could come down a justice Kennedy and and and we know now we know from the Obamacare decision than even the more conservative dresses are not immune ... to public pressure so ... who knows how many will come down on the Supreme Court nominee into broader political pressure Political Diary editor Jason Riley